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Hey there

 

i'm still new to this.   I've made it so all my routes show a daily profit, but I'm still losing money when it shows my Cash up on top.

 

Any advice?



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Ryan_D96

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If your airline is a new start up then it is likely that your overhead expenses exceed your marginal profits.

Try to keep costs as low as possible and profits as high as possible. Operate one family of aircraft, don't go crazy with loss making IFS and IFE.

Try to avoid competition if possible, lower ticket prices (i.e. Lower profit margins) means your overhead expenses, like support staff and maintainenance base cost, eat up a bigger proportion of your profits.

Bottom line: Keep costs as low as possible and charge as much as possible.

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It seems like the way to go, to exploit the markets.  You have to act like a low fare/cost carrier but charge super high prices.    Not totally realistic, but I can make it work.



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Are you talking about your O1 World?

 

Here's some simple advice: try a world that started not long ago. If you play on a world like O1 where there are loads of extremely developed airlines... well, it's not going to go so good.

 

Don't try to overtake a market which has a lot of extremely experienced players, e.g. America/Europe/Asia.

 

It may not be very realistic, but if you want to minimize the amount of money you lose, take all the employees hourly rates down to 7 dollars.

 

Also, don't be fooled by the financial page. Say you leased 10 new aircraft, which requires down payments, then that down payment will show up in the Aircraft Leasing area. It's best if you do your own maths when it comes to your airlines finance.

 

Oh, and by the way, try out the sandbox worlds first.



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It seems like the way to go, to exploit the markets.  You have to act like a low fare/cost carrier but charge super high prices.    Not totally realistic, but I can make it work.


This is not the case at all, you can start an airline with realistic utilisation, good service and lots of legroom. You just need to know what you're doing and be willing to nurture your airline to get it started :P

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To have a profitable airlines, follow these few tips and you will be fine:

 

1. Choose the biggest starting aircraft. It should be a McDonell Douglas MD-83, a Boeing 737-400 or an Airbus A320, depending the world you are in.

2. Configure your aircraft with the maximum seating. On short haul, full economy is good but on long haul choose a 3 class optimized config.

3. Start an IFS config with maximum price and minimum quality (Scam IFS)

4. Start an IFE config with 1 screen per 100 seats and put it with maximum price and ads

5. In Airlines Option - Human Ressources, change the medium pay rate of all the employees to 7$ per hour (yeah I know minimum pay rate in AE is very low)

 

With these 5 tips you will be one the most profitable spamline AE ever had :D



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To have a profitable airlines, follow these few tips and you will be fine:

 

1. Choose the biggest starting aircraft. It should be a McDonell Douglas MD-83, a Boeing 737-400 or an Airbus A320, depending the world you are in.

2. Configure your aircraft with the maximum seating. On short haul, full economy is good but on long haul choose a 3 class optimized config.

3. Start an IFS config with maximum price and minimum quality (Scam IFS)

4. Start an IFE config with 1 screen per 100 seats and put it with maximum price and ads

5. In Airlines Option - Human Ressources, change the medium pay rate of all the employees to 7$ per hour (yeah I know minimum pay rate in AE is very low)

 

With these 5 tips you will be one the most profitable spamline AE ever had :D

 

 

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